Pottery-machine.



F. G. HANEY.

POTTERY MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 4. 1914.

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POTTERY MACHINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915..

Application filed September 4, 1914. Serial No. 860,207.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRED Gr. HANEY, a citizenof the United States, and a resident of East Liverpool, in the county ofColumbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Pottery-Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to potteries, and the object thereof is to providea machine for performing the operation of batting out and balling, nowdone by hand, to get the clay in shape for the jiggerman in theformation of ware, such as plates, saucers, cups, bowls, etc. Thepresent way of performing this operation is for boys to take a lump'ofclay and place it on a batter block which is composed of plaster ofParis, where the said lump of clay is fiattened out to the proper sizeand thickness by striking the same with a batter, also composed ofplaster of Paris and having a bow-shaped handle, and, after the boy hasso formed the lump of clay into a bat, he passes it to the mold for the,jiggerman to make into the proper ware; in balling, the boy takes alump ofclay of the proper size and throws it into the mold for thejiggerman who forms -a cup or bowl therefrom. It will beseen thatuniformity in the sizes of. the bats and balls is next to impossible,and it was in order to dispense with this manual labor, as wellas toinsure uniformity insize and shape of the bats and balls. that myinvention was conceived. r

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of whichthe accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts aredesignated b the same reference characters in each of the views, and inwhich Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a machine constructed inaccordance with my invention, in one position of the parts; Fig. 2 is asimilar view with the parts in a difi'erent position; Fig. 3 is a planview of a table shown in.Fig..2; Fig. 4 is an enlarged,fragmentary,sectional,, View of a detail of the construction; Fig. 5 isa plan view thereof; Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 6-6 of Fig.l; Fig. 7 is an enlarged, sectional, view of the'hopper which I employ;Fig. 8 is a plan view of another detail; Fig. 9 is a section taken onthe line 99 of Fig. 8; and

Fig. 10 is a detached, sectional, view of another detail.

In the drawings forming a part of this application I have shown apresent preferred form of embodiment of my invention, comprising a base11 having a hopper 12 supported thereon by means of legs 13, a support14: for the means for cutting off the required. lumps of clay, a frame15 for the receiving and transfer mechanism, and a support 16 for areceiving table 17. The hopper 1.2 is of conical form at its lower endand provided with a removable die or former 18 in the open lower endthereof, said dies being of different internal sizes and, if desired,shapes, and are for the purpose of gaging the sizes of the lumps of clayforced downwardly through said hopper by means of fan blades 19 forforcing the clay downwardly, said blades being carried by a shaft 20which also carries a plurality of knives 21, and is provided with agear-wheel 22 at its upper end enmeshed with a pinion 23 on a verticalshaft 2 1 having a bevel gear 25 atits lower end.

The support 14: carries an arm 26 upon which is slidably arranged a claycutter 27 operable by means of a lever 28 pivoted at 29, in a support30and having a forked upper end 31engaged with a pin 32 onthe slidingcutter 27, the lower end of said lever beingprovided with a segment gear33 enmeshed with a sliding rack 34 in the support 30, and said lever isnormally maintained in the rearward position shown in F 1 by means of aspring 35 secured to the support 14, and it will be seen that when therack 34 is forced to the left, the lever carries the cutter 27 acrossthe open end of the hopper 12 to cut off the protruding portion oftheclay.

The under side of the receiving table 17 is provided with fourequidistant teeth. 36,

each of which is-adaptedto be engaged by a sliding pawl 37 to revolvesaid table through an arc of QOd-egrees in each actuation thereof, andthe top of the table is provided with a set of fourblocks 88 adjustableradially of the table whereby larger or smaller molds 39 may be heldbetween corresponding blocks 38, andI also provide stop blocks 38 alsoradially adjustable between the blocks 38, all of said blocks beingheld, in one form, by means of suitable bolts passed therethrough andthrough corresponding slots-in-the table and adapted to be locked to thetable by means of nuts- 49 onthe shaft 46, and said shaft '46 alsocarries an arm 50 securedthereto, having a small table '51 at the endthereof, a fixed pulley or grooved disk 52 being also held on said shaft46, said groove receiving a coil spring 53 secured, at one end, to saidpulley 52 and the other end to a pin 54 mounted on the slide 44, andsaid slide serves as a support for the end of each of two coil springs55, the other ends of which are secured to a frame 56 "having atransverse member 57 upon which the arm n01'ma1ly rests.

Secured. to the shaft 41 1a a gear 58 enmeshed with a similar gear 59 onthe shaft 42in 'turn,,enmesh'ed with a similar gear 60 on the shaft 43,thereby insuring complemental rotation of the shafts 41 and 43 in thesame. direction, and each of said last named shafts carries a mutilatedgear 61 andf62, respectively, the former being in the vertical plane ofa rack-63 carried by the slide 44, and the latter being in the verticalplaneof therpinion 47, and adapted to en gageltherewith, and the shaft41, which is the power, or driving shaft of the device, is also providedwith a bevel gear 64 enmeshed with the bevel gear '25 on the verticalshaft 24.

Secured-adjacent the frame 15 is a post 68; carrying an arm 69- abovethe slide 44, andthe-arm 50 carries a pin, or the equivalent, 70, whichis adapted to slide beneath theaarm' :69 to hold-the arm 50 inhorizontal position, but reversed on its pivot shaft 46, and Ialsoprovide a finger 71 on the slide 44 adapted tostr-ike against a stop72 to limit the movement of the said slide to the right, when drawn inthis direction by the springs :55, and, by reference to Fig 6, it willbe seenthatithe pawl 37 is carried by 3 the slide v44, whereby the table17 v is revolved through. one-fourth of a revolution in each actuationof the slide 44 to the-left.

Wi'th. parts inthe positions shown in Fig. .1,lthe power. shaft 41 turnsthe vertical shaft 24andthusthe hopper shaft 20, and the clay is .forcedout. of said hopper at the same time the. shaft 43 isrotated andthe-mutilated gears 61 and .62, are thus revolved, and it willwbe notedthat the action of the mutilated-gear 62 is earlier than that of thegear 61. 'When the mutilated gear '62 strikes against the pinion 47 saidpinion revolves the gear 49 and which swings the arm 50 through an .arcof 180 degrees, into the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2, withthe pin ready to he slid under the fixed arm 69, and this brings thesmall table 51 on the arm 50 above said arm; the mutilated gear 61 atthis time strikes the slide rack 63 and moves the slide 44 to the left,thus carrying the small table 51 directly beneath the open end of thehopper 12, and, in this forward movement of the slide 44, a projection73 thereon strikes the slide rack 34 in the support 30 and moves it tothe left, thus swinging the forked end 31 of the lever 28 to the right,and carrying the cutter 27 therewith, and a lump of clay, of a sizedetermined by the size and shape of the die 18 in the hopper, isdeposited on the small table 51. "The mutilated gear 62 has now clearedthe pinion 47 and the mutilated gear 61 is about to clear the rack 63 ofthe slide 44, and, when so cleared, the springs 55 draw the slide 44 tothe right until the finger 71 thereon strikes against the stop 72, thismovement having cl arch the pin 70 at the arm 50 from the arm 69,.andthe spring 53 moves the arm '50 on its pivot until it strikes upon theframe 56, this impact tending to dislodge the .lump of clay from thetable 51 and to deposit it upon the mold 39, of which there are four,one in 'each of the quadrant channels between corresponding blocks 68,and the bat or ball so deposited may then be manually removed :andpassed to the jiggerman and it will be noted that the table 17 isactuated, "by each movement of the slide '44 toward the left, to bringanother mold beneath the small table 51 on the arm 50, only one moldbeing'shown.

It will thus be seen that I provide means for feeding clay through ahopper, means for cutting off lumps of uniform size and shape, and meansfor depositing said lump upon a mold at a distance from'the hopper,therebydispensing with all manual labor now necessary for thisoperation. While I have shown a present preferred form ofconstruction, Ido not limit myself thereto, but may make changes in the same, andmodifications thereover, within the scope of the following claims,without dcparting from the spirit of my invention, or sacrificing itsadvantages.

Having fully described my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire 'tosecure by Letters Patent, is':

1 A .machine of the class described, comprising a base, a hopperthereon, means for forcing plastic material-through said hopper, meansfor separating a portion thereof therefrom, a mold, a slide inter-posedbetween said hopper and mold, an arm pivoted onsaid slide, means formoving said arm into position beneath said hopper, means for removingsaid arm from beneath said hopper after a portion of said material hasbeen deposited thereon, and means for swinging said arm, with saidportion of material, to deposit the same upon said mold.

2. A machine of the class described, comprising a base, a hopperthereon, means for forcing plastic material through said hopper, meansfor separating a portion thereof therefrom, means for gaging the amountso separated, a mold, a slide interposed between said hopper and mold,an arm pivoted on said slide, means for moving said arm into positionbeneath said hopper, means for removing said arm from beneath said hop--per, after a portion of said material has been deposited thereon, andmeans for swinging said arm, with said portion of material. t depositthe same upon said mold.

3. A machine of the class described, comprising a base, a hopperthereon, means for forcing plastic material through said hopper, meansfor separating a portion thereof therefrom, a mold, a table supportingsaid mold, means for revolving said table, a slide interposed betweensaid hopper and mold, an arm pivoted on said slide, means for movingsaid arm into position beneath said hopper and from thereunder after aportion of said material has been deposited thereon, and means forswinging said arm, with said portion of material, to deposit the sameupon said mold, said table carrying a plurality of molds adapted to besuccessively brought into position for receiving successive portions ofmaterial.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED G. HANEY.

Witnesses C. W. POWELL, EARL E. POWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

